Thesaurus results for HULLS

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noun

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plural of hull

as in sheaths

something that encloses another thing especially to protect it the coffin was placed in a cement hull

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verb

present tense third-person singular of hull

as in peels

to remove the natural covering of hull the pinto beans before adding them

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Recent Examples of hulls

Noun

According to Modesto Fire, two large piles of almond hulls on the 1300 block of Meikle Road began burning on Sunday afternoon. —

Jose Fabian, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Intricate details of both spacecraft stages, down to some individual rivets, can be seen along the spacecraft hulls, while Earth hangs humbly in the background on the bottom half of the frame. —

Josh Dinner, Space.com, 18 May 2026 By bringing oat hulls into the pulp process, Södra is effectively turning an agricultural byproduct into part of its industrial fiber supply. —

Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 May 2026 That construction process involves sliding insulation between separate inner and outer fiberglass hulls for all/four-season comfort and journey-weathering toughness. —

C.c. Weiss may 10, New Atlas, 10 May 2026 The accepted wisdom in yacht design has been that the fastest ocean passages can only be achieved by multihull craft, such as the current crop of Ultim trimarans, which have three hulls in parallel and have set the big records of the past decade. —

Andrew Rice, New York Times, 7 May 2026 That number could rise further in the next decade as costs fall with more ice-capable hulls hitting the water and technological advances, said Hanne Nielsen, a senior lecturer of Antarctic law at the University of Tasmania. —

Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026 That number could rise further in the next decade as costs fall with more ice-capable hulls hitting the water and technological advances, said Hanne Nielsen, a senior lecturer of Antarctic law at the University of Tasmania. —

ABC News, 5 May 2026 Water plants thoroughly and mulch with a 1- to 2-inch layer of organic material such as compost, cocoa bean hulls, or wood chips. —

Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 May 2026

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Opt for bigger hanging bulbs, discrete flickers, or even hanging sheaths.

— Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
The payload was designed to test a hypersonic navigation system capable of accurately identifying spacecraft position, even when communications are blocked by intense plasma sheaths during hypersonic flight.

— Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026